The Broken Book

By Fiona Farrell

Fiona Farrell's meandering travel book shows how an earthquake can change everything in a flash: the book you were writing, the house you were living in, the thoughts that preoccupied you. The Broken Book consists of four essays about life and walking, bookended by a preamble and an afterword, and interrupted by 21 poems about the Christchurch earthquakes and their aftermath. The poems jolt into the essays like aftershocks, like cracks in the text; they make you pause and reconsider. The Broken Book is funny, timely, deeply personal but never self-indulgent - it shows Fiona's talents as a writer and warmth as a human being.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Auckland University Press
• Release date: Oct 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781869405878

Fiona Farrell

Fiona Farrell is a New Zealand author who won the Montana New Zealand Book Award and was nominated for the international IMPAC Award. She received the Bruce Mason Award for Playwrights, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, and was an inaugural recipient of the Rathcoola Residency for New Zealand and Australian writers and artists.